Watching this as a young, kid..
This movie scared the heck out of me as a kid. Welles' narration, the tick-tock of the clock (??), talk about nuclear anhilation...yikes, I think I had more nightmares about this movie than any other!!
I saw this on cable in 82 when I was 12. It scared me pretty good and had me in a depression for a while. my parents noticed i wasnt myself but I never told them it was because of this movie. I eventually got over it. I think I realized there was nothing I could do about it and just hoped for the best
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Surprised no one else ever replied. Maybe I was a weird kid I guess ;)
You are not alone! I am currently at a bar in Brooklyn, NY, talking to my boyfriend about this film. He never saw it as a kid, but it gave me crazy nightmares.. especially the WW3 parts...Ahh the man in the blue turban from the middle east!
shareIt scared me as a kid, and they way the set up made me think scholars every where thought it was true too
shareI had a pretty religious upbringing and I was a curious kid so I had read stuff like Revelations and then I watched this and everything made sense LOL (until I started watching cosmos with carl sagan :P)
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